Educator Open House with Robert Jackson
No More Excuses: Real Teachers Stand Up! Come tour the Freedom Center for FREE and experience how the educational programs at NURFC can enhance your everyday teaching. Meet Robert Jackson, a Motivational Speaker, Trainer and author of No More Excuses, Black Men Stand Up! and No More Excuses: The Workbook is a Professional Sales Rep with Teva Pharmaceuticals where he is currently ranked in the top 9% of the sales force. Robert’s motto is, “If you aren’t part of the solution: then you are part of the problem.”
For more information about the Open House or to RSVP please contact Education Sales Manager, Kieli Ferguson at kferguson@nurfc.org or 513.333.7570.
Dramatic Readings with Deondra Means
Come listen to Cincinnati Children's Theater member Deondra Means as he enlivens some of our favorite children's stories. Free with admission.
Family Activity Series: The Fall Harvest
Before there were grocery stores, everyone had to grow the food they wanted to eat. Try your hand at planting seeds for your winter garden! All ages welcome. Free with admission.
Dramatic Readings with Deondra Means
Come listen to Cincinnati Children's Theater member Deondra Means as he enlivens some of our favorite children's stories. Free with admission.
Dramatic Readings with Deondra Means
Come listen to Cincinnati Children's Theater member Deondra Means as he enlivens some of our favorite children's stories. Free with admission.
International Freedom Conductor Award Luncheon
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, will accept the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center's International Freedom Conductor Award (IFCA). The Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his unstinting advocacy of freedom for his native Tibet, will be honored at a lunch at the Duke Energy Center on October 20, said Freedom Center CEO & President, Donald W. Murphy.
Teacher Thursday Workshop: Teaching Black History All Year Long
Join acclaimed visual artist, poet, and performing artist Annie Ruth as she shares tools and ideas on how to effectively and effortlessly incorporate Black History across various subject areas. This 90-minute workshop will demonstrative innovative arts integration resources that inspire participating educators in utilizing contemporary visual art, poetry and music and other ideas to help reinforce lessons of Black History across the curriculum.
For more information about the Open House or to RSVP please contact Education Sales Manager, Kieli Ferguson at kferguson@nurfc.org or 513.333.7570.
Family Activity Series: Dia De Los Muertos Paper Banners
Make Day of the Dead decorations popular in celebrations throughout Latin America. Dia de Los Muertos celebrates and honors family and friends who have died and is a time of celebration and joyful fun! Free with admission.
"Dream in Doubt" Film Screening
This award-winning documentary tells the story of America’s first post-9/11 revenge murder. When his brother was mistaken as Middle Eastern and viciously murdered in the months following the terror attacks on the United States in September 2001, Sikh-American and film director Rana Singh Sodhi searches for the meaning of freedom in our own lives and challenges our conceptions of what it means to be an American. Presented in conjunction with The Enemy Within. Reservations preferred, but not required, to 513-333-7705.
Upcoming Exhibitions
The Enemy Within: Terror in America, 1776 to Today
Invisible: Slavery Today
Invisible: Slavery Today is a new, permanent exhibition that will bring visitors face-to-face with the continuing travesty of contemporary slavery. The first museum-quality exhibition in the world on the subject of modern slavery, Invisible will show how forced labor and human trafficking make up a $32 billion illicit economy in which men, women and children are bought sold, and discarded. But it will also challenge visitors to take action to abolish modern-day slavery in their own communities and around the world.
